Data Sovereignty and the Global Push for Digital Renationalization
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Discovery of the day · Political Science
The Politics of Information in an Age of Weaponized Interdependence
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Political Science · Technology & Global Governance
Discovery of the day
New research demonstrates that international security threats, not just domestic regime incentives, drive nations to impose data localization laws. Using the Snowden revelations as a natural experiment, the study shows that states geopolitically distant from the US were markedly more likely to adopt stringent data-storage requirements after learning of Washington’s surveillance capabilities. This reframes digital sovereignty as a strategic security calculus, linking perceptions of coercion directly to global economic closure — a vital lens for a retired public servant who managed IT procurement and a writer attentive to shifting power dynamics.
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